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Freaky! Go try it out. .< 12:29:25 AM  >McDonough quits as NDP leader 
Saying a good leader knows when to step down, Alexa McDonough on Wednesday resigned as the leader of the New Democratic Party after seven years at the helm. [CBC News] .< 12:27:35 AM >Dead Men Tell No Passwords. The man in charge of some of Norway's most precious electronic documents died without divulging the way to access them. A plea to hackers to help crack the system is out. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] Whoops! .< 12:20:34 AM >Demystifying the syntax of regular expressions. Builder.com on those “cryptic strings of garbage” known as regular expressions. [ranchero.com] .< 12:18:46 AM >example.com. Charles Miller: "A quick note for anyone writing documentation, or filling in default values in the configuration file for an application... The domains example.com, example.net and example.org are reserved for use in documentation. Thus, if you use bob@example.com in your default configuration file, you can be guaranteed that the address will never exist, and thus there will never be a "Bob" who is annoyed at your stupid choice of example domain names." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] I didn't know that! .< 12:16:30 AM >Michael Wolff: "The music business, this theory acknowledges, is about selling technology as much as music. From mono to stereo to Walkman. It just happens that the next stage of technological development in the music business has largely excluded the music business itself." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 12:12:59 AM >Al-Qaida monitored U.S. negotiations with Taliban over oil pipeline. A memo by military chief Mohammed Atef raises new questions about whether failed U.S. efforts to reform Afghanistan's radical regime -- and build the pipeline -- set the stage for Sept. 11. [Salon.com] .< 12:11:39 AM >"Shakey: Neil Young's Biography" by Jimmy McDonough. The story of the "Godfather of Grunge" is a tale of sickness, health, overweening ego, spectacular talent and reckless abandon. [Salon.com] .< 12:09:50 AM >Miguel Danielson's OSXGuide.com "is dedicated to providing helpful, insightful guides on performing all sorts of tasks in MacOS X." [Macintouch] .< 12:05:27 AM >The official release version of Mozilla 1.0 , the open-source web browser, is now available from Mozilla.org. Mozilla is available for Mac OS 8.5 and up and Mac OS X (as well as Linux, Windows, and other systems). [Macintouch] .< 12:03:17 AM >Enable Quartz text smoothing in all Carbon apps [Mac OS X Hints] Lots of good feedback on this one. Still installing 10.1.5 as I type so haven't tried Silk yet. |
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